To be fair, you can keep invading our servers with your "absolutely legitimate strategies". All you'll be left with are a handful of casual players who aren't aware that you stand alone behind these thousands of multis.
Leave scorched earth behind and the actual decent players will refuse to play against you.
All the best,
Kicked your booty before, and won't even bother doing so again 
The books on the floor would've been swept aside by the door opening on the way out.
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Egyptians: built in capital – account wide effect
Main goal: strengthen the identity of the Egyptian tribe.
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foreign troops consume 25%
MORE crop in your villages.
- Egyptian troops consume 25% LESS crop in your villages.
The Egyptians are the strongest defensive tribe. Their troops are efficient, fast and there are enough types to cover all possible scenarios.
Although, one of the main strategies involving the Egyptians is using their capital's bonus crop production, alongside their wall bonus (strongest in the game) to store friendly hammers and feed them there.
This strategy, commonly used, hurts the identity of the Egyptians as a "simming" tribe, easy to defend and benefits more from settling villages with higher production thanks to the waterworks building.
I believe that the tribe should remain mostly the same, with no efficient offensive capabilities in return for higher production and better defensive units than the rest of the tribes.
What the Sphinx does is address this dull strategy by putting an opportunity cost on it. It will still be used in the competitive levels, but should balance them out by losing the Sphinx effect.
This should strengthen the identity of the Egyptians by incentivizing them store more of their own troops, which compliments their high wall bonus and bonus production. You should think twice before attacking an Egyptian.
NOTE: all friendly Egyptian troops will consume less crop and all friendly non-Egyptian troops will consume more crop, including your own.
Sphinx -
Foreign troops consume more crop in your villages.
Egyptian troops consume less crop in your villages.
Can only be built by Egyptians and only in their capital. It affects the whole empire.
Prerequisites: Main Building level 10; Granary level 20; Bakery level 5
| Level | Cost | CP | Population | Effect | Building Time |
| 1 | 2,500 - 2,200 - 1,900 - 6,200 | 7 | 6 | none | 1:01:20 |
| 2 | 4,500 - 3,960 - 3,420 - 11,160 | 3 | 4 | none | 1:52:00 |
| 3 | 8,100 - 7,130 - 6,160 - 20,090 | 5 | 6 | none | 3:08:00 |
| 4 | 14,580 - 12,830 - 11,080 - 36,160 | 7 | 8 | none | 5:02:00 |
| 5 | 26,245 - 23,095 - 19,945 - 65,085 | 9 | 10 | 25% | 7:53:00 |
Romans: built in capital – account wide effect
Main goal: increase expansion/building potential of Romans in all villages.
- boosts CP (passive and/or celebrations)
The Romans already excel in offense. Their troops are fast, have the highest stats out of all the tribes.
Although, they struggle to fit into the "empire" theme of Rome, and usually end up building tall over wide.
Compared to Gauls having access to Phalanx and Druids, and Teutons having access to Spearmen and Paladins, the Romans do not have access to any semi-efficient defensive cavalry unit. That limits their defensive playstyle potential to small accounts only, as large ones overflow with resources meant for cavalry.
Giving the Romans higher CP gain and more villages to play with means that large scale defensive accounts will be more rewarding, more intuitive gameplay to fit with the "Roman empire" theme, and offer high potential for skilled simmers.
This also compliments the innate bonus of parallel building, as well as the Senators being the strongestof all administrators.
This can be balanced through the town hall.
Giving Romans an unconditional 50% CP bonus from buildings seems over the top.
However, the bonus should be lower and include CP from all sources (buildings,town halls and possibly auctions).
That way, the player is offered to invest more resources into CP that other
tribes cannot access.
The Colosseum -
Increases culture points gained from all sources.
Can only be built by Romans and only in their capital. It affects the whole empire.
Prerequisites: Main Building level 10; Town Hall level 5
| Level | Cost | CP | Population | Effect | Building Time |
| 1 | 1,350 - 1,500 - 1,350 - 300 | 6 | 5 | +6% | 2:13:20 |
| 2 | 1,730 - 1,920 - 1,730 - 385 | 7 | 2 | +7% | 2:39:40 |
| 3 | 2,215 - 2,460 - 2,215 - 495 | 9 | 2 | +8% | 3:10:10 |
| 4 | 2,835 - 3,150 - 2,835 - 635 | 10 | 2 | +9% | 3:45:40 |
| 5 | 3,630 - 4,035 - 3,630 - 815 | 12 | 2 | +10% | 4:26:50 |
| 6 | 4,650 - 5,165 - 4,650 - 1,045 | 15 | 3 | +11% | 5:14:30 |
| 7 | 5,955 - 6,615 - 5,955 - 1,340 | 18 | 3 | +12% | 6:09:40 |
| 8 | 7,625 - 8,270 - 7,625 - 1,715 | 21 | 3 | +13% | 7:13:50 |
| 9 | 9,760 - 10,585 - 9,760 - 2,195 | 26 | 3 | +14% | 8:28:20 |
| 10 | 12,495 - 13,550 - 12,495 - 2,810 | 31 | 3 | +15% | 9:54:40 |
| 11 | 15,995 - 17,345 - 15,995 - 3,600 | 37 | 4 | +16% | 11:34:50 |
| 12 | 20,475 - 22,205 - 20,475 - 4,610 | 45 | 4 | +17% | 13:31:00 |
| 13 | 26,210 - 28,420 - 26,210 - 5,900 | 53 | 4 | +18% | 15:45:40 |
| 14 | 33,550 - 36,380 - 33,550 - 7,555 | 64 | 4 | +19% | 18:22:20 |
| 15 | 42,945 - 46,570 - 42,945 - 9,670 |
77 | 4 | +20% | 21:23:20 |
| 16 | 54,970 - 59,610 - 54,970 - 12,380 | 92 | 5 | +21% | 24:53:40 |
| 17 | 70,365 - 76,300 - 30,365 - 15,850 | 111 | 5 | +22% | 28:57:40 |
| 18 |
90,070 - 97,665 - 90,070 - 20,290 | 133 | 5 | +23% | 33:40;40 |
| 19 | 115,290 - 125,015 - 115.290 - 25,975 | 160 | 5 | +24% | 39:09:00 |
| 20 | 147,570 - 160,020 - 147,570 - 33,250 | 192 | 5 | +25% | 42:29:50 |
Clay pits are orange
Iron mines are grey
For you, my love, I would cast my armies away
Simming is fun
Raiding even more
Your clubs and thunders are the ones I adore
Praetorians are strong
Though expensive and slow
For you I'll become a Phalanx and tank every blow
You registered late
And though you're a farm
My troops will protect you from all harm
To conclude this poem
By the meme lord who likes to defend
Vote for Exist and bring this contest to an end
Com1
Muse
